Dec
5
Since it’s that annoying list time of year again
Last December I wrote about why I never compile best of end-of-year lists. The piece was published in the Brooklyn Rail. Here’s a segment:
In the end, these artifacts mostly serve the echo chambers and attempt to quantify the messy splendor that is the world of pop music, allowing for the glorification of a wholly unsatisfying approach to listening and appreciating diverse sounds, creating yet another realm of smugness in which fanboys and music snobs can pontificate in coded language.
To read the rest, go here.
